« All Story Quotes · Ernest Hemingway's Page
Story Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one…
- There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It…
- Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
- Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.
- The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
- Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
- When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no…
- Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
- After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
- No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
- But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
More Story Quotes
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet.… — Margaret Atwood
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action… — Jensen Ackles